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kalos: i understand what you mean by tab. Making it for opera should be fairly simple, but here's 2 questions:If you want a new tab to be openened when you hover over the other tabs, how can you select the other tabs? If it works like this, everytime you change tabs, a new one will be opened.

As for mirc, imagine you have 2 tabs open: the status tab and the #DonationCoder tab. What will contain the new tab that is opened when you over each of those?

I've made one script in ahk that does just that, but only for mIRC. I can't do it for opera, because opera's naming of controls depends on how many tabs are open and my script can't identify when you are hovering over the tab bar.

1) is there any work around for opera?2) how can I do this for other programs that have tabs? I mean, can you tell me what procedure you followed, some kind of pseudocode, etc3) where do I specify the hover time?4) can you make it not to click an already clicked tab and minimized it? it should only click background tabs, because otherwise it flashes the tab (clicks it multiple times)

1) i have no idea... i can't find any other way to do it 2) if you'd like to make another script for another program, you'll need 2 pieces of information: the window class of the application, and the control id of the tab control. These can be found with "window spy" which comes with ahk. On the code itself, these are the 2 values between ". (mIRC and mIRC_SwitchBar1). Just replace those with the values for the other application.3) where it says "sleep 200", replace with a higher number for more time (or lower number for less time) 4) the script isn't aware of the state of tabs (actually, it doesn't even know what exactly it is clicking), so, there's no way to avoid clicking the currently focused tab

PS: the version i uploaded keeps clicking repeatedly when you hover the tabs?

Ok.. See the post above for an updated version, with a lower time setting.Now it doesn't flash, but each time you hover over to select a button, you must take the mouse out of the startbar and then hover over the other button. (i hope you can understand what i mean..)

1) I want to activate-by-hovering the tabs in Opera, just like the "Tab Mix Plus" extension does in Firefox, and NOT to activate ALL the controls in ALL programs (just specific controls, like opera tabs, in specific programs, like opera)

2) I want to activate-by-hovering the buttons in WinXP taskbar (this shouldn't work with other controls)

3) also, it would be handy to activate the Start menu, by hovering over the Start button

I managed to do them with jgpaiva's scripts both, but the problems described in the above posts still exist